I came into racing relatively recently (within the last 5 years) and totally love it - and can recommend to anyone that has always wanted to be a "racing driver" to take the plunge.
What amazed me (and I understand almost everyone who started racing as an adult with lots of road-driving experience agrees) is just how hard it is.
I have had the privaledge of owning and driving a few fast road cars that need to be driven (as opposed to driving themselves), like 1980's 911 Turbo, E-Type, etc. and I assumed that I would therefore be reasonably "good" at racing. Far from it as I found very quickly that it is more than just whether you have some car control at speed. I found that racing required not just a proper understanding of lines through a corner, but also lap-on-lap the consistancy around where one is braking, at what point one turns into the corner, the transitions of ones input across accelatation / braking / turn-in / re-acceleration / straightening up the steering / etc. through the corner, etc. etc.
The other part the I found very hard was the close proximity of the cars. Single seaters have no brake lights so initially when I was approaching a fast corner with my nose cone just 6" behind the gearbox of the guy in front I had to back off before reaching the braking zone. It just seemed crazy to stick right behind him when he might brake really early, or spin right in front of me, or take an odd line and we touch wheels (which sends one car skywards), etc. It took a lot of self-motivational chats to myself to force myself to stick in there and not back off, even when my car and his car are sliding through a corner inches apart, right on the limits of adhesion.
Anyway, enough of this boring rambling! Here is a picture of me in the Titan not on fire.
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